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Formatting XSLT document

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xml

xslt

I have an XSLT file for transforming data from table to INSERT statements. So the output looks like

INSERT INTO some_table VALUES (Voda, Šenov);

INSERT INTO some_table VALUES (Vorba, Vlčnov);

which is fine to me. My XSLT contains this three lines

<xsl:for-each select="PAGE/ROWSET/ROW">
  INSERT INTO some_table VALUES (<xsl:value-of select="SURNAME"/>, <xsl:value-of select="CITY"/>);
</xsl:for-each>

And here is the question, I really dont want to put so many values on the same line(my table has like 20 columns) in order to maintain the formatting in output, so is there a way how to keep output the same and have my columns in INSERT on multiple lines in for-each?

Thanks a lot for answers

EDIT

I would like to have the for-each loop like this

<xsl:for-each select="PAGE/ROWSET/ROW">
  INSERT INTO some_table VALUES va1 ,val2 (
         <xsl:value-of select="SURNAME"/>, 
         <xsl:value-of select="CITY"/>);
</xsl:for-each>
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Petr Mensik Avatar asked Jun 06 '26 07:06

Petr Mensik


1 Answers

Try

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
    version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

    <xsl:output method="text" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:for-each select="PAGE/ROWSET/ROW">
            <xsl:text>INSERT INTO some_table VALUES val1 ,val2 (</xsl:text>
                 <xsl:value-of select="SURNAME"/><xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
                 <xsl:value-of select="CITY"/><xsl:text>);</xsl:text>
                 <xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
        </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

In XML Spy, with input

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<PAGE>
    <ROWSET>
        <ROW>
            <SURNAME>sn1</SURNAME>
            <CITY>c1</CITY>
        </ROW>
        <ROW>
            <SURNAME>sn2</SURNAME>
            <CITY>c2</CITY>
        </ROW>
    </ROWSET>
</PAGE>

I get

INSERT INTO some_table VALUES val1 ,val2 (sn1, c1);
INSERT INTO some_table VALUES val1 ,val2 (sn2, c2);
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Maestro13 Avatar answered Jun 09 '26 00:06

Maestro13



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